Top 100 I Play Quotes
#1. When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.
Matthew Sweet
#2. I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.
Michael Cera
#3. I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.
Will Ferrell
#4. I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.
Graham Thorpe
#5. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
Jacqueline Du Pre
#6. Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
#7. I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.
Powers Boothe
#8. People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.
David Duchovny
#9. I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
Nolan Sotillo
#10. It is my goal to win every time I play. But on the other hand, I also seek a balance of compassion and respect for the other players. I understand that everyone goes through difficult times, either mentally or physically, to cope with their life, to live the sport.
Novak Djokovic
#11. I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
Lena Dunham
#12. By each book which i Have written... I play different roles...
...
One I was playing the role of god!
Deyth Banger
#13. I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.
Tom Hardy
#14. The biggest challenges are in the same vein. It's about retaining all that stuff. Also, the physical stuff is not as easy as we originally thought. I play a lot of sports and I remember saying, "Oh, I'll be fine, running around or doing anything."
Steven Yeun
#15. I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan
#16. Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.
Aaron Ashmore
#17. In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango
Tori Amos
#18. There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."
Charlie Munger
#19. When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.
Chris Evert
#20. Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.
Marin Ireland
#21. On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.
Arnold Palmer
#22. When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
Nicolas Cage
#23. I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
Buddy Rich
#24. The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.
Nicky Romero
#25. I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
Sargent Shriver
#26. It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them.
Sergio Garcia
#27. I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.
Amy Ray
#28. When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."
Walter Martin
#29. I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music ...
Grant Evans
#31. I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.
Donald Driver
#32. Bolster, v.
I am very careful whenever I know you're on the phone with your father. I know you'll come to me eventually, and we'll talk you through it. But I have to wait - you need your time. In the meantime, I'm careful what songs I play. I try to speak to you with my selections.
David Levithan
#33. I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.
Paul Eenhoorn
#34. People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie.
~ Mrigank Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#35. When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel De Montaigne
#36. When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
Alan Hansen
#37. I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
Andy Garcia
#38. I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
Steven Wright
#39. I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.
Lindsey Vonn
#40. A lot of players have told me they see me as a protector of my teammates, that, side by side, I'm there when something goes down, and I step up beside them and for them when things get nasty. I play the game hard, and I play it physical.
Ndamukong Suh
#41. In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.
Brenton Thwaites
#42. I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.
Edi Gathegi
#43. I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just something that's always been around. I play saxophone and guitar. I'd definitely like to pursue it, and it's something I'd like to keep going, if not as a career, then as a hobby.
Charlie Rowe
#44. I play chess, but my past is checkered,
The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.
Ka
#45. I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.
Jeffrey DeMunn
#46. If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
Adam Jones
#47. I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!
Eva Green
#48. For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.
Merzbow
#49. I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
Ted Nugent
#50. I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I'm always trying to beat. I'm a good player. You don't want to play me for money, that's for sure.
Suzi Quatro
#51. I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.
Hugh Grant
#52. I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free.
Christian Scott
#53. At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
Adam Dunn
#54. I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.
Justin Deeley
#55. I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week.
Matthew Lewis
#56. It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.
Macklemore
#57. And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.
Kevin Durant
#58. Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
John Abercrombie
#59. I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
Kenny G
#60. As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.
Dennis Rodman
#61. I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.
Katee Sackhoff
#62. I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!
Jay Ryan
#63. My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
Saina Nehwal
#64. All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world. For a person of Zen, no limits exist. The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small."
Muso Soseki
Muso Soseki
#65. Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
Billie Jean King
#66. People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you're working hard and making it sound easy!
Stan Getz
#67. I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
Josh Turner
#68. I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.
Steve Martin
#69. When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the Thelonious Monk book, I play the music and work with kids in a group to create a color wheel and show how the wheel can be mapped on a 12-tone chromatic scale.
Chris Raschka
#70. I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.
Bobby Keys
#71. I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
Jonny Wilkinson
#74. It's very important to me, who I play with and the same about picking a crew of people.
KT Tunstall
#75. The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
Nancy Lopez
#76. What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.
Adhir Kalyan
#77. People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.
Terrell Owens
#78. I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn't willing to die for his convictions isn't worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.
Elias Koteas
#79. I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.
Robert Kazinsky
#80. I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.
Nick Kroll
#81. I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
Peter Hook
#82. I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
Christopher Walken
#83. I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings.
Brian Bell
#84. If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.
Derek Sanderson
#85. If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.
Keke Palmer
#86. I don't play bad guys. I play people who make choices that are different from other people's.
Robert Deniro
#87. I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
Bobby Fischer
#89. I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.
Tyler Hilton
#90. So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
Gavin DeGraw
#91. I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
Janina Gavankar
#92. I play chess on my iPhone, and indulge in a fond fantasy that my opponent isn't a mind of digital code but Dad: It's Dad's attacks I repel; Dad's defenses I dismantle; Dad's king scurrying around the board to prolong the inevitable.
David Mitchell
#93. I play Sun-Hi, a Korean-American girl who is a social media expert and dreams of becoming a worldwide star. Being on Make It Pop is so much fun because we get to sing dance and act all in one production which is a dream come true! Working with the cast and crew is also a blast!
Megan Lee
#94. I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.
John Polson
#95. Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?
Jason Isaacs
#96. The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
Estelle Getty
#97. I am not happy to play for Barcelona, but Barcelona should be happy that I play there.
Romario
#98. I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.
Wilmer Valderrama
#99. I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#100. I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
Bernie Mac
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